Michael Feeney Callan

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Anthony Hopkins
"Impressive work from one of Ireland's leading biographers," says the Sunday Business Post (Jan 8, 2006).

Luke Kelly
Michael’s film on the lengendary balladeer Luke Kelly, which outsold even U2,
was ranked number two in national DVD music sales for 2006.

December 2007 - Films
Michael Feeney Callan has joined the advisory board of Irish Film America, alongside Jim Sheridan, Paddy Breathnach, Mary McGuckian and others. The premier IFA event will be staged at the Clarity Theater in Los Angeles
in October 2008.

October 2007 - Films
Michael was awarded a multi-platinum disc for sales of his film, “Luke Kelly, the Performer” on October 4th in a ceremony that also honoured Dubliner Ronnie Drew for his fifty-year contribution to music.

Michael’s son Corey and daughter Paris at the Luke Kelly awards function at the Four Seasons Hotel, Dublin.

June 2007 - Books
Michael’s biography of Sean Connery, which has been in print for 25 years, was published again in Finnish by Art House, Helsinki, in June. It has already been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Polish, Hungarian, Romanian and simplified Chinese.

Autumn 2008 - Books
Michael’s long anticipated biography of Robert Redford, ten years in the making, has been completed and will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US this year.

Autumn 2008 - Film
Michael's film on The Dubliners called "Before the Before", which features
contibutions from luminaries like Irish President Mary McAleese, was delayed
by illnesses within the band, but will be completed this summer.

President McAleese in conversation with Michael Feeney Callan during the filming of "Before the Before: the Dubliners' Story". Copyright IML Ltd.

Shortly - Art
Michael’s exhibition, “Suburbia” will open at the Blue Leaf Gallery shortly.
See preview visual in section Art.


A French Influence Irish Times art critic Aidan Dunne observed that "Callan's work is like a love affair with French painting", and this seems comprehensively accurate, since Callan began painting in Valbonne in the South of France in the eighties and titled his first exhibition, staged at Dublin's Blue Leaf Gallery in May 2002, "A Workshop in France". Subsequently his work ran on two parallel tracks. His figurative nudes featured in the Blue Leaf's Nude group showing in November 2002, and more detailed figurative work, taken from his heavily illustrated poetry notebooks, was the focus of the "Fifty Fingers" exhibition, which opened in August 2003. In tandem with this figurative work, Callan's experiments in abstract cubism have produced strikingly individual works peopled with statuesque Hellenic imagery.
*ART SALES* Michael Feeney Callan’s art may be purchased directly from this site, or at the Blue Leaf Gallery in Dublin (blueleafgallery.com). Costs are inclusive of packaging and shipping.
La Baie des Anges Matisse contemplating the ocean from N°1, Place Charles-Felix. Oil on canvas. 18"x24". SOLD		Michael's Pub Woody Allen at full Dixieland flight, Monday night at a favoured Manhattan watering hole. Oil on canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'000
The Cavern 1963 The transitional moment in early 1963 when the Beatles, back again from Hamburg, opted for the tailored showbiz look under Epstein's management. Oil on canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'400		Soliste A teenage boy's satori. Painted in Dublin. Oil on canvas. 18"x24". SOLD
Mougins Picasso on the dawn terrace of Notre Dame de Vie, middle fifties. From a photograph by David Douglas Duncan. Oil on canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'000		Veille Night through a mullioned window. Charcoal, soot, oil and canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'000
The Hunting Party Hemingway in Cuba, somewhere between the 'Pilar', and a metaphorical jungle. Oil on canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'500		Mouvement d'eau Amazon basin fisherman at sundown, middle nineties. Oil on canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'000
Desert Fauna Oil on canvas. 18"x24". SOLD		On Greene's Capri Oil on canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'400
Bacon and Eggs Oil on canvas. 20"x40". SOLD		Icons After Ingres Oil on canvas. 18"x24". EUR 1'400

Gaia Painted at Antibes, based on Beckmann. Oil on canvas. 20"x30". SOLD		Ancient Bud Painted at Valbonne. Oil on canvas. 30"x40". EUR 2'000
Homage 1925 Based on seminal neo-classical Picasso, by homage. Oil on canvas. 20"x30". EUR 2'200		Homage 1917 Based on seminal cubist Picasso, by homage. Oil on canvas. 30"x40". SOLD
Derrière le Miroir Oil on canvas. 20"x30". SOLD		Est-ce que tu m'aimes? Painted at St Tropez. Oil and pencil on canvas. 18"x24" EUR 1'800
Abstract: Tin Painted in Dublin. Oil, tin foil, wood and grit on canvas. 18"x24 EUR 1'500		Abstract: Storm Painted in Honolulu. Oil, Hawaiian sand on canvas. 18"x24" EUR 1'500
Honolulu Heights Oil on canvas. 18"x24" EUR 1'200		Spirit of the Forest Oil on canvas. 18"x24" SOLD

Beach Scene Plage Tahiti, St.Tropez EUR 900		Chateauneuf Pré du Lac EUR 900


Magic of the night		On a night such as this
Maude goes